A method for detecting allowable street parking slots, the method may include (i) receiving, by a computerized allowable street parking slot locating (CASPSL) system, street static vehicles information from multiple vehicles; wherein the street static vehicle information is indicative of (a) locations of static vehicles that are located at least partially within one or more streets, (b) relationship information indicative of spatial relationships between the static vehicles and the one or more street borders; and (c) timing information regarding timings of sensing of the static vehicles; and (ii) determining, by the CASPSL system, based on the street static vehicle information, allowable street parking slots metadata indicative of (a) locations of allowable street parking slots, and (b) time windows of allowed parking in the allowable street parking slot, and (c) spatial relationships between the static vehicles and the one or more street borders.
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1. A method for detecting allowable street parking slots, the method comprises: receiving, by a computerized allowable street parking slot locating (CASPSL) system, street static vehicles information from multiple vehicles; wherein the street static vehicle information is indicative of (a) locations of static vehicles that are located at least partially within one or more streets, (b) relationship information indicative of spatial relationships between the static vehicles and the one or more street borders; and (c) timing information regarding timings of sensing of the static vehicles; and determining, by the CASPSL system, based on the street static vehicle information, allowable street parking slots metadata indicative of (a) locations of allowable street parking slots, and (b) time windows of allowed parking in the allowable street parking slot, and (c) spatial relationships between the static vehicles and the one or more street borders; wherein the determining of the allowable street parking slots metadata comprises determining likelihoods of occurrences of potential parking events, wherein likelihoods of occurrences of potential street parking events located in a region are responsive to an overall number of vehicles within the region that sent the street static vehicles information.
2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the determining comprises ignoring street static vehicles information regarding static vehicles that were static for less than a predefined period.
3. The method according to claim 1 wherein each potential parking event involves a presence of a static vehicle at a certain location, at a certain point in time and at a certain spatial relationship to a street border.
4. The method according to claim 1 wherein the allowable street parking slots metadata is also indicative of whether a truck is allowed to park in the parking slots.
5. The method according to claim 1 wherein the determining comprises ignoring potential parking events having an insignificant likelihood of occurrence.
6. The method according to claim 1 comprising determining an allowability of potential parking events based on likelihoods of an occurrence of the events.
7. The method according to claim 1 comprises determining that a certain location is an allowable street parking slot having a certain time window of allowed parking when a likelihood of a potential parking events that involve a presence of a static vehicle at the certain location and at any point in time within the certain time window exceed a significance threshold.
8. The method according to claim 1 wherein the spatial relationships between the static vehicles and the one or more street borders comprise angular information having values selected of three different values.
9. The method according to claim 1 wherein the likelihoods of occurrences of potential street parking events located in a region are also responsive to an overall traffic within the region.
10. A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions for: receiving, by a computerized allowable street parking slot locating (CASPSL) system, street static vehicles information from multiple vehicles; wherein the street static vehicle information is indicative of (a) locations of static vehicles that are located at least partially within one or more streets, (b) relationship information indicative of spatial relationships between the static vehicles and the one or more street borders; (c) timing information regarding timings of sensing of the static vehicles; and determining, by the CASPSL system, based on the street static vehicle information, allowable street parking slots metadata indicative of (a) locations of allowable street parking slots, and (b) time windows of allowed parking in the allowable street parking slot, and (c) spatial relationships between the static vehicles and the one or more street borders; wherein the determining of the allowable street parking slots metadata comprises determining likelihoods of occurrences of potential parking events, wherein likelihoods of occurrences of potential street parking events located in a region are responsive to an overall number of vehicles within the region that sent the street static vehicles information.
11. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 10 wherein the determining comprises ignoring street static vehicles information regarding static vehicles that were static for less than a predefined period.
12. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 10 wherein each potential parking event involves a presence of a static vehicle at a certain location, at a certain point in time and at a certain spatial relationship to a street border.
13. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 10 wherein the allowable street parking slots metadata is also indicative of whether a truck is allowed to park in the parking slots.
14. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 10 wherein the determining comprises ignoring potential parking events having an insignificant likelihood of occurrence.
15. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 10 comprising determining an allowability of potential parking events based on likelihoods of an occurrence of the events.
16. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 10 comprises determining that a certain location is an allowable street parking slot having a certain time window of allowed parking when a likelihood of a potential parking events that involve a presence of a static vehicle at the certain location and at any point in time within the certain time window exceed a significance threshold.
17. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 10 wherein the spatial relationships between the static vehicles and the one or more street borders comprise angular information having values selected of three different values.
18. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 10 the likelihoods of occurrences of potential street parking events located in a region are also responsive to an overall traffic within the region.
19. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 10 that stores instructions for (i) clustering potential parking events that are similar to each other and finding a cluster representative from each cluster, calculating the likelihood of occurrence of cluster representatives from multiple clusters, and determining, based on these likelihoods, the allowable parking events.
20. A method for parking an autonomous vehicle, the method comprises: feeding an autonomous driving system of a vehicle with an allowable street parking slots metadata; wherein a determining of the allowable street parking slots metadata comprises determining likelihoods of occurrences of potential parking events, wherein likelihoods of occurrences of potential street parking events located in a region are responsive to an overall number of vehicles within the region that sent street static vehicles information to a computerized allowable street parking slot locating (CASPSL) system that determined the allowable parking slots metadata; the allowable street parking slots metadata is indicative of (a) locations of allowable street parking slots, and (b) time windows of allowed parking in the allowable street parking slot, and (c) spatial relationships between static vehicles and one or more street borders; locating, by the autonomous driving system, a vacant allowable street parking slot; and parking the vehicle, by the autonomous driving system, at a manner that fits the spatial relationship related to the allowable street parking slot between the static vehicle and the one or more street borders.
21. The method according to claim 20 wherein the allowable street parking slots metadata is indicative of an angular relationships between the static vehicles and the one or more street borders.
22. The method according to claim 20 wherein the allowable street parking slots metadata is indicative of at least one typical vehicles type per allowable street parking slot.
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